People entertainment with hand-held sound-emitting devices

Abstract

A people entertainment method provides a sound-emissive, tear-resistant sheet of material, bends that sound-emissive sheet of material into a loop and attaches that loop to a handle. Users may then hold the handle and shake that handle and thereby the loop intensively to excite the bent sheet into sound emission. Streamer elements may be connected to the handle which is shook intensively to excite the bent sheet into sound emission accompanied by shaking streamer elements. There further may be provided on the sound-emissive, tear-resistant sheet of material, a message visually perceptible by people being entertained and related to an aspect of the practiced people entertainment. People's attention may then be drawn to that message by exciting the bent sheet into sound emission through the shaking of the handle and thereby of the loop on which the message is provided.

I claim: 
     
       1. In a people entertainment noisemaker method, the improvement comprising in combination the steps of: providing a single sound-emissive, tear-resistant sheet of material;   bending said sound-emissive sheet of material into a single loop around a space running transversely to said loop and being open to atmosphere laterally of said loop; and   attaching said loop to a handle.   
     
     
       2. A method as in claim 1, including the steps of: holding said handle; and   shaking said handle and thereby said loop intensively to excite said bent sheet into sound emission.   
     
     
       3. A method as in claim 1, including the step of: connecting streamer elements to said handle.   
     
     
       4. A method as in claim 3, including the step of: holding said handle; and   shaking said handle and thereby said streamer elements and said loop intensively to excite said bent sheet into sound emission accompanied by shaking streamer elements.   
     
     
       5. A method as in claim 3, wherein: said streamer elements are attached to said handle.   
     
     
       6. A method as in claim 3, wherein: said streamer elements are attached to said sheet which is attached to said handle.   
     
     
       7. A method as in claim 3, wherein: said streamer elements are integral with said sheet which is attached to said handle.   
     
     
       8. A method as in claim 1, including the steps of: providing said handle with a crosspiece; and   attaching said loop to said crosspiece of the handle.   
     
     
       9. A method as in claim 8, including the step of: providing said handle with a handgrip below said crosspiece.   
     
     
       10. A method as in claim 1, including the steps of: providing said handle with a T-shaped configuration; and   attaching said loop to a top of said T-shaped configuration.   
     
     
       11. A method as in claim 1, including: providing on said sound-emissive, tear-resistant sheet of material a message visually perceptible by people being entertained and related to an aspect of the people entertainment practiced by said method.   
     
     
       12. A method as in claim 11, including the step of: holding said handle; and   shaking said handle and thereby said loop intensively to draw people's attention to said message by exciting said bent sheet into sound emission through said shaking.   
     
     
       13. A people entertainment noisemaker device, comprising in combination: a handle; and   a single loop of a single sound-emissive, tear-resistant sheet of material attached to said handle;   said loop bent around a space running transversely to said loop and being open to atmosphere laterally of said loop.   
     
     
       14. A device as in claim 13, wherein: said handle has a crosspiece; and   said loop of a sound-emissive sheet of material is attached to said crosspiece of the handle.   
     
     
       15. A device as in claim 14, wherein: said handle has a handgrip below said crosspiece.   
     
     
       16. A device as in claim 14, wherein: said crosspiece has grooves; and   opposite edges of said sheet of material are in said grooves.   
     
     
       17. A device as in claim 13, including: streamer elements connected to said handle.   
     
     
       18. A device as in claim 17, wherein: said streamer elements are attached to said handle.   
     
     
       19. A device as in claim 17, wherein: said streamer elements are attached to said sheet which is attached to said handle.   
     
     
       20. A device as in claim 17, wherein: said streamer elements are integral with said sheet which is attached to said handle.   
     
     
       21. A people entertainment noisemaker device, comprising in combination: a handle;   a single loop of a single sound-emissive, tear-resistant sheet of material attached to said handle, said loop bent around a space running transversely to said loop and being open to atmosphere laterally of said loop; and   a message visually perceptible on said sound-emissive, tear-resistant sheet of material by people being entertained and related to an aspect of the people entertainment performed by said device.   
     
     
       22. A device as in claim 21, including: streamer elements connected to said handle.